Everhour Time Tracking supports project hours and approvals, while France requires careful daily working-time records and GDPR-aware handling.
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You need a practical record of who worked, when they worked, and where that time belongs. For France, that means more than a weekly total. As an EU member state, France sits under the CJEU CCOO v Deutsche Bank baseline requiring an objective, reliable and accessible system for measuring each worker's daily working time.
French labor rules add operational detail. Collective schedules require displayed start, finish, and rest times. If employees in a service or workshop do not share the same collective schedule, the employer must establish documents that count each affected employee's working time, accrued compensatory rest, and actual rest taken.
A useful French timesheet records the employee, date, start and finish times, breaks or rest periods, project, task, work category, and approval status. The record should separate effective working time from absences, time off, and rest. A project note such as "Client A, website review, 2.5 hours" gives billing context without replacing the daily work record.
French full-time private-sector work uses a legal duration of 35 hours per week, equal to 151.67 hours per month or 1,607 hours per year in the general case. For a full-time employee, work requested by the employer beyond 35 hours per week or 1,607 hours per year is overtime, subject to collective terms where they apply.
The common mistake is treating a project tracker as the complete working-time record. A task total can explain where time went, but it does not prove daily start time, finish time, rest time, or the actual working pattern. If an automatic recording system counts each employee's working time, French labor law requires it to be reliable and tamper-proof.
Another mistake is ignoring employee data rules. Time entries, schedules, and monitoring data that identify workers are personal data under the GDPR. France-facing workflows also need French localization and euro-denominated billing or reporting where money is shown, especially when the same data moves from time review into client invoices or cost reports.
A simple time tracking tool is enough when you need a clean weekly record for a small team, one client, or a short project. It works best when the same person enters, checks, and exports the time, and when payroll, billing, and approval rules stay simple.
A managed workflow fits teams that need daily records across projects, approvals before payroll or billing, locked periods, reminders, and a consistent handoff to reports or invoices. Everhour connects timers and manual entries to tasks and projects, then feeds timesheets, reporting, budgeting, invoicing, and payroll review.
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France is covered by the EU baseline from CJEU CCOO v Deutsche Bank, which requires an objective, reliable and accessible system for measuring each worker's daily working time. French rules also require specific documents for employees who do not follow the same collective schedule as everyone in the service or workshop.
A practical record should include employee, date, start time, finish time, rest periods, effective working time, project or cost center, and approval status. For non-collective schedules, French rules require documents that count each affected employee's working time, accrued compensatory rest, and actual rest taken.
France's legal full-time working duration is 35 hours per week, equal to 151.67 hours per month or 1,607 hours per year for the general private-sector case. For a full-time employee, work performed at the employer's request beyond 35 hours per week or 1,607 hours per year is overtime.
French working time generally may not exceed 10 hours per day for a private-sector adult employee, with listed exceptions. Weekly working time may not exceed 48 hours in one week or 44 hours per week on average across 12 consecutive weeks, with exceptional routes for higher limits under specified conditions.
French labor law requires an automatic system that counts each employee's working time to be reliable and tamper-proof. The employer must also provide evidence of actual hours in working-time disputes, so editable totals without an audit trail create a recordkeeping weakness.
Everhour Time Tracking lets employees record task and project hours with live timers or manual entries, including inside tools such as Asana, ClickUp, Jira, GitHub, Notion, Trello, and Monday. Those entries feed timesheets, reports, budgets, invoices, and payroll review.
Everhour approvals let managers review submitted timesheets, approve or reject entries, and lock approved time from regular member edits. That workflow gives payroll and billing reviewers a cleaner record before exported reports or invoices use the logged hours.
Track approved hours across tasks, projects, and teams with Everhour Time Tracking, then move reviewed time into reporting, invoicing, budgeting, and payroll review.
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